Book: Stairway to the Bottom - A Mick Murphy Key West Mystery by Michael Haskins

Michael Haskins

about this book: Mick Murphy finds the body of a hit woman from the Cold War in the kitchen of someone he considers a bar friend in Key West. Soon, Murphy is tangled up with US Marshals looking for someone from the witness protection program and then retired Cold War spies looking for someone that walked off with $20 million in diamonds as the Berlin Wall came down. With his black-ops friend, Norm, Murphy deals with the old spies, but the Marshals are more unfriendly since they need the missing person for the trial of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger.

Soon the mix of federal agents and spies clash with Murphy and when things look like they can't get worse, corrupt FBI agents from Boston show up and want Bulger's hidden millions. When ex-KGB Russians, now gangsters, show up demanding the diamonds life for Murphy and his friends turn deadly. Before the last page is turned, Murphy loses everything important to him and almost his life.